Leaf architecture and functional traits for 122 species at the University of California at Berkeley botanical garden

The data set contains leaf venation architecture and functional traits for a phylogenetically diverse set of 122 plant species (including ferns, basal angiosperms, monocots, basal eudicots, asterids, and rosids) collected from the living collections of the University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley (37.87 °N, 122.23 °W; CA, USA) from February to September, 2021. The sampled species originated from all continents, except Antarctica, and are distributed in different growth forms (aquatic, herb, climbing, tree, shrub). The functional dataset comprises 31 (mechanical, hydraulic, anatomical, physiological, economical, and chemical) traits and describes six main leaf functional axes (hydraulic conductance, resistance and resilience to damages caused by drought and herbivory, resilience to damages, mechanical support, and construction cost), as well as how architecture features vary across venation networks. Our trait dataset is suitable for (1) functional and architectural characte..., Leaf venation architecture and functional traits were measured on 122 species of ferns and angiosperms species collected from the UCBG living collections. The sampled species are distributed among 112 families and 56 orders, and include species in different plant clades (ferns, basal angiosperms (including ANITA and magnoliids), monocots, basal eudicots, rosids, and asterids), with different growth forms (aquatic, herb, climbing, tree, shrub) and from all continents, except Antarctica. Our sampling approach aimed to maximize both the phylogenetic coverage and the evolutionary distinctiveness.
For each of the 122 species, we either sampled branches (> 1 meter long branch) from a single individual per species in the case of woody species, or from 1-5 whole individuals in the case of herbaceous species. Samples were collected in the morning (9-11 AM), brought to a UCBG research greenhouse, re-cut under water, re-hydrated overnight, and then used for the measurement of leaf architecture ..., , # Leaf architecture and functional traits for 122 species at the University of California at Berkeley botanical garden

[https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.1g1jwsv36](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.1g1jwsv36)

## Description of the data and file structure

1.  The ZIP archives expands to 6,800 Files, 542 Folders, organized as below: 

* **DataS1** [6,805 Files, 542 Folders, 60.8 GB]:
* **“README.txt”** file in text document files (TXT) format containing contact information of the corresponding author and principal investigator.
* **“UCBG_122spp.txt”** contains a phylogenetic tree for the 122 plant species.
* **“UCBG_122spp_occurrences.csv”** file in comma separated value (CSV) format with 127,761 coordinates of species occurrence extracted from BIEN and GBIF databases. 

**VARIABLES**
* **spp_code [Column A, categorical]:** species code, comprising the first three letters of the genus and the first three letters of the species name.
* **latitude [Column B, numeric]:** latitu...